Famous personalities of England

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2. The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock
band that formed in Liverpool, in
1960. With John Lennon, Paul
McCartney, George Harrison, and
Ringo Starr, they became widely
regarded as the greatest and most
influential act of the rock era.
Rooted in skiffle and 1950s rock and
roll, the Beatles later experimented
with several genres, ranging from
pop ballads to psychedelic rock,
often incorporating classical
elements in innovative ways. In the
early 1960s, their enormous
popularity first emerged as
"Beatlemania", but as their
songwriting grew in sophistication
they came to be perceived as an
embodiment of the ideals shared by
the era's sociocultural revolutions.

3.

William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare – 23 April
1616. Was an English poet and
playwright, widely regarded as
the greatest writer in the
English language and the
world's pre-eminent dramatist.
He is often called England's
national poet and the "Bard of
Avon". His extant works,
including some collaborations,
consist of about 38 plays,154
sonnets, two long narrative
poems, and a few other
verses, the authorship of some
of which is uncertain. His plays
have been translated into
every major living language
and are performed more often
than those of any other
playwright

4.

Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 –
25 December 1977) was a British comic actor, filmmaker, and
composer who rose to fame in the silent era. Chaplin became a
worldwide icon through his screen persona "the Tramp" and is
considered one of the most important figures of the film industry.
His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in
the Victorian era until a year before his death at age 88, and
encompassed both adulation and controversy.

5.

Sir Winston Leonard
Spencer-Churchill, (30
November 1874 – 24
January 1965) was a
British politician who
was the Prime Minister
of the United Kingdom
from 1940 to 1945 and
again from 1951 to
1955. Widely regarded
as one of the greatest
wartime leaders of the
20th century, Churchill
was also an officer in
the British Army, a
historian, a writer, and
an artist. He is the only
British Prime Minister to
have won the Nobel
Prize in Literature, and
was the first person to
be made an honorary
citizen of the United
States.

6.

Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton (25 December
1642 – 20 March 1727) was an
English physicist and
mathematician who is widely
regarded as one of the most
influential scientists of all time
and as a key figure in the
scientific revolution. His book
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia
Mathematica ("Mathematical
Principles of Natural Philosophy"),
first published in 1687, laid the
foundations for most of classical
mechanics. Newton also made
seminal contributions to optics
and shares credit with Gottfried
Leibniz for the invention of the
infinitesimal calculus.

7.

Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, (12
February 1809 – 19 April 1882)
was an English naturalist and
geologist, best known for his
contributions to evolutionary
theory. He established that all
species of life have descended
over time from common
ancestors, and in a joint
publication with Alfred Russel
Wallace introduced his
scientific theory that this
branching pattern of evolution
resulted from a process that he
called natural selection, in
which the struggle for existence
has a similar effect to the
artificial selection involved in
selective breeding.

8.

Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher,
(née Roberts, 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013),
was a British politician who was the Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to
1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party
from 1975 to 1990. She was the longestserving British Prime Minister of the 20th
century and is the only woman to have held the
office. A Soviet journalist called her the "Iron
Lady", a nickname that became associated with
her uncompromising politics and leadership
style. As Prime Minister, she implemented
policies that have come to be known as
Thatcherism.

9.

Captain James Cook
Captain James Cook, (7 November
1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British
explorer, navigator, cartographer, and
captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made
detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to
making three voyages to the Pacific
Ocean, during which he achieved the
first recorded European contact with the
eastern coastline of Australia and
the Hawaiian Islands, and the first
recorded circumnavigation of New
Zealand.
The routes of Captain James Cook's voyages.
The first voyage is shown in red, second voyage
in green, and third voyage in blue. The route of
Cook's crew following his death is shown as a
dashed blue line.

10. PINK FLOYD

Pink Floyd were an English rock band
that achieved international acclaim
with their
progressive and psychedelic music.
Distinguished by their use of
philosophical lyrics, sonic
experimentation, and elaborate live
shows, they are one of the
most commercially successfuland
musically influential groups in the history
of popular music.

11. Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie
Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 –
30 November 1900) was an Irish
writer and poet. After writing in
different forms throughout the
1880s, he became one of
London's most popular
playwrights in the early 1890s.
Today he is remembered for
his epigrams, his only novel (The
Picture of Dorian Gray), his plays,
and the circumstances of his
imprisonment and early death.